- Which fast food breakfast sandwich
is as pretty as its picture?
- Let's talk about that.
(cheerful music)
(fire whooshing)
"Good Mythical Morning!"
- Our TVs, computers, and phones
are filled with lab-created,
corporately-constructed commercials,
specializing in making fast food breakfast sandwiches
look so delicious you just wanna get up
and get your butt in a drive-thru ASAP.
This is something I have done, let me say-
- This is something you have done?
- Yes, I've seen an ad, I've gotten into my car,
I've driven to the place, I've purchased it,
and consumed it before I even got outta the parking lot.
- Were you disappointed that it didn't look like the ad?
- I ate it too fast to know, but you know what?
That is a great question. - Isn't it?
- A question we should ask today,
and answer. - Okay!
- It's time for these fast food ads are putting on airs.
My breakfast sandwich looks like it fell down the stairs!
All right, we once donned our judging blazers
and gloves- - Mm-hmm.
- Little "Antiques Roadshow" action,
because some serious scrutiny is about to go down.
We're gonna analyze- - Boom!
- What a collection of fast food breakfast sandwiches
from different establishments look like in reality
versus what they look like in their ad.
- Expectations are important,
especially when they aren't met
at breakfast time. - Whoa!
- We decided to go with some of the most
piled-high sandwiches on each place's respective menu
to really put the photo honesty to the test.
And in the end, we will be determining officially
which fast food breakfast sandwich
looks the most like its ad.
- I'm ready.
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First, we have the Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddle
made with a sausage patty, scrambled egg,
and a slice of American cheese set between
two maple-y griddle cakes- - I love it!
- Introduced in 2003,
currently one of the best-selling items of McDonald's!
And definitely, I think the best thing on the menu,
bar none. - Oh, wow, yeah, it's great.
We've both fallen in love with this thing,
but maybe that's 'cause we don't look at the ads,
we just think about the taste.
- Let's take a look at the "Hello Sunshine!" ad.
There's controversy over whether
it's McGriddle or McGriddles.
Josh actually talked about this
on "A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich."
Apparently, McGriddles is officially the name,
but even McDonald's, as they did in this ad,
occasionally will mess it up
and call it McGriddle! - Yeah, in the lower left,
it doesn't have the S.
- It's a pretty sandwich,
and with that cheese on the bottom,
that kind of comes down on the sides
of the bottom bun- - Whoo, looks good!
So we've taken that picture and we've placed it here
on our box-of-ad-versus-the-real-thing
platform. - Oh, look at that.
- Okay, yeah, we can get even closer.
So we have three Sausage & Egg McGriddles,
each from a different local McDonald's,
to have basically a sample size,
and to remove the fact that different people
make these things at different places.
Maybe the manager has different standards.
- We wanna give 'em their best shot.
- We are gonna pick in each round
which one looks the most like the ad.
It will move on to a final tournament
at the end of this episode.
- Can we eat the ones we don't put forward?
- I hope so. - Because I'm hungry.
- Rhett, you wanna throw that one on there?
- I do. - And I like...
I really like using the gloves.
We should do that more often. I feel like...
I kinda of feel like Mickey Mouse!
- Maybe we wear gloves all the time.
Now, as you can see,
the cheese is going the wrong direction.
- Yeah, it's- - It's defying gravity.
- That's strange!
- [Rhett] I mean,
that's a pretty nice little situation there,
but again, the cheese- - Oh, yeah.
- Is going the wrong way. - So turn the fold...
Keep going. Turn the fold the same...
There we go. Nope, nope, nope, don't go that far.
There you go. The fold on the egg, so it's the same way.
Yeah, cheese wrong direction.
- All right, let's bring up another candidate,
'cause that's not bad.
- [Link] Not bad at all. Here's the second one.
Let me take that one back. - Okay, well,
what's happening here?
- Get a little rotation.
This one wasn't stacked- - This one's all
over the place. - Uh-oh, oh, look at that!
Whoa, my gosh!
- The cheese is still going the wrong direction, but it's-
- They're making the McGriddles upside down at McDonald's!
They're making 'em upside down!
- Yeah, and- - I'm setting this...
I wanna eat this one.
I'm setting that aside. - That one's not as good.
- I think I'll just take a bite now.
- I'm gonna take a bite too.
- You gotta keep those judges happy.
- Get that out frame entirely.
- All right, next one.
- Here's the third one.
That maple-infused pancake, boy,
that's something from the future!
- [Rhett] Look, again! Three different McDonald's-
- [Link] Cheese is going the wrong direction!
- All making 'em upside down! Y'all gotta talk to the...
Corporate's gotta get on this.
This one's horrible, as well. - They must be making
the sausage, they melt the cheese over the sausage-
- That's not bad. - And then put that on there.
- [Rhett] That's not bad, 'cause look at the cheese
in the ad, how it's going, we see two corners.
This is a two-corner situation, and pretty nice fold there.
- It looks like it's smiling at us
because of the cheese going up, which I kinda like.
- It's either that one- - That one's a good one.
- Or this one.
- [Link] Nope, other one. I mean, look at that.
That's messed up, man.
- Yeah, okay, so here we go. - All right, fine.
- There's our official...
This is the McGriddle that is going to the finals.
- It looks so...
It looks like sunshine!
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Now we got Burger King's Fully Loaded Buttermilk Biscuit.
- Dang! - This sandwich boasts
thin-sliced sweet Black Forest ham,
savory sizzling sausage, thick-cut naturally smoked bacon,
fluffy eggs, melted American cheese,
on a soft, flaky biscuit.
It's loaded!
- It is. - Never had it.
- And the ad is very loaded, "Date, marry, ditch."
Oh, they're playing around with that...
You know what they're playing around with.
- Okay, yep, yep. - You know,
what they usually say instead of date,
marry, ditch- - Marry, beep-boop! Kill.
- Okay, Fully Loaded Biscuit there.
It does have a graphic in the way,
but we have- - Good gracious!
Look how tall it is. - I don't know how we did it,
but we have somehow gotten rid of the graphic.
- Twinkle Fingies, did you amalgamate this thing,
or is this a different photo?
- [Zack] It's probably a different photo.
- No it's- - Probably.
- [Rhett] No, I think it's the same photo!
I mean that, that bacon is essentially the same!
- Well, what they did was,
this photo exists on the internet,
and then they amalgamated it into the...
You know, they did a- - Ah, it's an amalgamation.
- Composite is the word I'm looking for.
- Yeah, okay, so let's just get started here.
- [Link] Oh wow! Get ready for chaos.
- [Rhett] First of all, let's just get
a closer look at it. (laughs)
- [Link] Now, what happened to that half of the egg?
- [Rhett] I just couldn't find it
without my magnifying glass. - [Link] Rotate it!
- [Rhett] Oh, wow, we got a cheese explosion.
Don't see any of the meat on that side.
The bacon's- - [Link] Oh, wow, I mean,
that's like a cheese hernia!
- First of all, let me just say,
in the ad, the bacon is on the top.
In this, the bacon is smushed underneath the ham.
That's the bacon right there.
I don't know if you can see it.
- I don't know about you, but I already feel ripped off.
- Let me just, just in case you can't see that.
(people chuckling)
- [Link] Okay.
- [Rhett] That's the bacon right there.
- So this is what it looks like.
when a Loaded Breakfast Biscuit goes to heaven.
- (giggles) Or it gets taken away by aliens.
♪ Hoo ♪
- All right, and I can already tell,
this one's got- - So we were hard
on that first one.
Let me see the second one.
- This one's got the cheese- - Good gosh!
- In the wrong place. - It's all over the place!
- [Rhett] Look, this has the cheese on top of the bacon!
- [Link] Oh, wow!
- There's miscommunication happening at...
Where is this from, Burger King?
- Burger King, brah!
- Y'all gotta talk to each other more!
- [Link] Yeah, the power has been decentralized
from the King. - What is...
I mean, first of all, I gotta say,
there's a whole lot more more that can go wrong
on this one. - So much to stack.
- Yeah, than the McGriddle.
- [Link] Here's what I do think.
- [Rhett] What do you think?
- It's chaos, but it still looks tasty!
Like, I am hungry! - You guys,
especially when you take it to heaven.
♪ Hoo ♪
Okay, this last one, I can already see, Link,
has the bacon in the right place, which,
it might be our leading contender, but you know what?
The cheese is in the wrong place!
The cheese is underneath the sausage,
and the ham is underneath the cheese!
- Are you outraged?
- This is crazy that there's literally
absolutely no quality control!
The order of this stuff has nothing...
There's no rhyme or reason, it's just like,
just long as that's all on the sandwich.
- [Link] Yeah, all the pieces are at least there.
- [Rhett] But which one's the best?
I think, actually, maybe the first one's the best,
'cause it doesn't have as many, like...
- Yeah, go back- - Embarrassing parts to it.
- Go back to that one, and while you're...
I feel like I wanna- - I can see every ingredient
there and the bacon's poking out a little bit.
It's just weird, I got egg on one side,
no egg on the other side, but...
- I do wanna taste it, though.
- I'll taste this one.
I mean, somebody's gotta taste it.
- I don't like sliced ham on my breakfast sandwich.
Like once you got bacon and sausage,
sliced ham doesn't need to be invited to that party.
- Okay, you feel like it's excessive?
- Mm-hmm. - I don't know about that,
but I do know that this is the best that we got
for the Fully Loaded Biscuit, and it's a little bit sad.
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Now we have Carl's Jr.'s Breakfast Burger.
Yes, that is a thing, a Breakfast Burger.
Charbroiled beef patty, crispy bacon,
egg, hash rounds, American cheese,
and ketchup on a sesame seed bun.
- Now, listen, I'm just gonna...
I'm gonna say it. - Say it!
- I have not had the cojones to order this thing.
- I didn't even know it was a thing.
- So I'm interested in tasting it.
- What about after seeing that ad?
Look how sexy it looks- - [Link] Whoo!
- [Rhett] In the ad, with some steam coming off of it?
- [Link] Oh, gosh, that looks good.
- Whoo! - It is stacked high.
You got hash rounds just waterfalling
off the edge of that thing-
- Listen, I haven't even- - It's a danger!
- Looked over here yet, I can tell you right now,
this is gonna be hard to do.
- Yeah. - You're doing those
hash rounds, you're not paying people enough
to make that little hash rounds crown at the bottom there.
That's just not gonna work.
- Adding a burger to your breakfast sandwich is bold,
and then slathering ketchup up on the top and bottom?
Boy, they're really going for the gusto!
- All right, let's just start with our first one.
- Brace yourself for disappointment,
'cause I mean, we just got a sad little smush-
- [Rhett] It's like it's sticking its tongue out at you.
And there's nothing else besides bacon
and a little bit of egg.
- See if all the pieces are in it.
Do you wanna...
- [Rhett] I mean, is it okay to lift it like a...
- [Link] Is there a piece in there?
Look how....
- Okay, this is what the hash browns
look like on the bottom.
I do wanna prove that they are there.
Shine the light on 'em.
Take 'em to heaven. ♪ Hoo ♪
Okay, and then we've got the bun, so there is ketchup
underneath 'em. - Look at how they're smushed!
- [Rhett] So everything is in the right order.
- Ketchup up on top?
- And then- - Yeah.
- Well, cheese and...
That's a egg? Yeah, that's a egg.
Cheese and then a egg- - (laughs) You couldn't even
tell that that was an egg.
You just thought it was more cheese.
- And then ketchup, and I mean,
this is what they're doing for bacon these days.
- [Link] That's a sad bacon configuration.
- So everything is in the right order,
so I gotta give 'em that,
but we've lost at least two inches.
And that happens with age.
- But this thing is fresh!
- (laughs) Yeah, right- - It's just made!
- It hasn't been around long enough.
Okay. - This one looks better.
- You think? - A little bit.
I can see some hash rounds- - Oh, okay, well, look,
we got a little bit of that hash...
I mean, that's the only place.
And back here, we got basically like just
a buttcrack situation. - Good gosh!
See, when I'm eating one of these things,
do you bite the good-looking side first?
- I think I would.
- Or do you rearrange it?
I don't rearrange my burger.
I ain't got time for that.
- Who rearranges their burger?
Is there a person out there- - Well, look at the back!
- Who's more particular
than you? - You don't wanna be left
with just bread on the backside.
- Well, I mean, I think you just start eating.
- [Link] Nothing is sexy about any of this stuff-
- But this has got it in the right order
and I can see the hash rounds, so that's not horrible.
- This one right here has a little promise!
- We got some bacon hanging out.
Look at that, we got bacon hanging out.
- [Link] Good gracious!
- [Rhett] It looks like a Muppet.
(people laughing) Hey!
- It's got pigtails.
Yeah, that's the good side.
- [Rhett] Yeah, but what do you not see?
- No hash rounds! - No hash rounds.
- Peek in there. Open it up a little bit.
- [Rhett] They're in there. They've been squished.
- Smooshed. They've been smooshed.
- The bacon's pretty nice.
The egg, we're getting a fold of an egg.
I mean, like you can see that egg fold.
- Oh, well, that's nice! - You know what?
- Oh, the egg fold is nice! - The egg fold
and the bacon are really doing a lot
of heavy lifting here. - But they're just a...
But with this one- - Put that one down.
- [Link] There's no egg, but it's...
Do we want the tater rounds or do we want the egg?
- I think that the taters- - Put it on top of it,
or just stack it. - Are so prominent-
- [Link] I mean, look at that!
It takes two of 'em to get to the height of the ad.
- [Rhett] This part is so classy, though, right here,
with the egg fold and the bacon,
that's, I mean- - [Link] Yeah.
- [Rhett] I feel like you gotta do that one!
- Yep, yep, it's classy.
- I gotta send this one for you.
Now we gotta do what we said we wouldn't do,
and take a bite of it. - We gotta bite this.
Mm-hmm. - It wasn't even part of it.
They said, "You don't have to eat 'em."
(people murmuring) - A lot of bread and tater
happening in my mouth right now.
- It's pretty dry.
I feel like I need to dip it into something.
All right, there it is- - It's not bad, though.
- The Breakfast Burger. - I like a burger
for breakfast, as an idea.
- Believe it or not,
this is the one that's going to the finals.
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All right, now we got the Jack in the Box
Loaded Breakfast Sandwich.
Does it give the Burger King Loaded Breakfast Sandwich
a run for its money in looks alone?
It's got two pieces of sourdough bread,
freshly cracked eggs, hickory smoked bacon,
ham, again with the ham,
sausage, in between two slices of American cheese.
- You can get this 24 hours a day, okay?
- Mm, yep, and that is what the ad says.
- I like a sourdough bun. - Breakfast all day!
- [Rhett] A sourdough bun does a lot for me.
- It looks good there.
It kinda makes me think, maybe ham is a good idea.
- And it also isn't trying to oversell its height.
It's sort of embracing a little bit of a flat presentation.
- Okay. - You know what I'm saying?
- Yep, yep. - It's not overselling itself.
- That's gonna help us as we move to the first one here.
Rhett, do the honors. Back that...
Oh! - [Rhett] Mm.
(people chuckling)
- Well, I mean, tilt it up, because they did a top...
You know, that...
Yeah, we gotta see the...
You gotta do it like that.
- [Rhett] Okay, so we've got cheese...
They've got cheese on the bottom in the picture, and-
- [Link] They better have cheese on the bottom!
Two slices of cheese!
- Okay, there is cheese- - I like that.
- Underneath a very thin patty.
- [Link] Hm, interesting.
- Egg, and then let's see, we've got the ham,
we've got the cheese, and then I think we've got bacon,
but you wouldn't know because it is completely
subsumed by the ham,
which you don't even like. - It's eclipsed.
It's a ham eclipse. - I mean, there's a little
bacon peeking out of the back- - Try this one, try this one.
See if that one's good.
- [Rhett] Okay, I can see the bacon right from the...
Okay, you see the bacon. - This one's better.
This one's better. - You see all the...
Every ingredient in order. - Rotate it, though.
Does it look like someone ran over
the backside of it? - Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean, I was hiding this from you.
- All right, that one- - 'Cause really, all you need-
- Might come back- - All you need is one side.
- Compare it to that one.
- [Rhett] This one, ah, man,
the sausage is getting lost in the mix.
- Not as good as this one, I don't think. This one-
- Well, there's a sausage there.
I don't think it's as uniform as this one, though.
- Yeah, I think that one's better.
- [Rhett] I think that's our best bet right there.
- [Link] Let's move that one on.
It's a little uneven, but- - You wanna take a bite?
- Yeah, I definitely...
I wanna take a bite of that one, the runner-up.
Freshly cracked egg, can't complain about that.
- It's pretty tasty!
But that's not what this is about.
It's about how much this looks like that.
- Or not. (quirky music)
All right, we've selected the best sammich
from each restaurant compared to its ad.
Now we gotta select the best overall and put 'em up here.
Let's start with which one is the worst.
- I think that the- - I mean, it might be this.
Is this the Loaded Biscuit?
- The Loaded Biscuit from Burger King,
yes, everything's out of order, but here's the thing.
This Breakfast Burger from Carl's Jr.
makes such a big promise,
and we're missing a whole layer here, it seems like!
- Yeah! - You know what I'm saying?
There's a whole story of the sandwich that is missing,
and that's the best that they had to offer.
- And this is kind of like, in the ad,
you kinda see this as a unit.
Something about the way this thing is stacked,
even in the ad, look at how like the biscuit
is teetering on top.
- [Rhett] It's sort of embracing the chaos,
and so that's- - It implies-
- You know what I'm saying? - It implies the flexibility-
- You never know what you're gonna get!
- In how things are gonna be stacked, so-
- Okay, so let's put Carl's Jr. Breakfast Burger
at the bottom, so, sorry guys, you're last place,
the least ad-worthy breakfast sandwich.
Now, again, this is saying chaos is embraced,
but they missed almost the order of every single item.
The only thing they got right, really,
was the egg goes under the sausage,
but everything else is wrong.
- I mean, I think it's...
What we were talking about, this being second,
'cause the Jack in the Box- - The Jack in the Box
isn't promising too much because it's already
a little bit flat in the ad. - Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm feeling that, so we're gonna throw this right in there.
Well, I'd like to have this in like a curio case
in my living room. - Well, Link,
you can feel free to take it home.
- And now, you know, the Jack in the Box,
I will say, it's the tasty sandwich, you know,
it's totally different than the McGriddle,
but not that you asked,
but that's got some nice taste to it.
- You said, "It's the tasty sandwich"?
You were about say, "It's the tastiest sandwich."
It's not better than McGriddle!
- It's the tastiest sandwich except for this one,
'cause I love that.
- Now, the McGriddle, again,
it's not promising a whole lot visually,
and they did make one mistake in that the cheese
is defying gravity.
That's something you really gotta have a meeting about.
- It's strange to show it one way and do it another.
- But despite that, I think we're on Team McGriddle here,
because- - Oh, yeah.
- The Jack in the Box is going in second place,
and the most ad-worthy sandwich,
breakfast sandwich, that is, is the McGriddle-
- [Both] From McDonald's!
- Congratulations, McDonald's!
I mean, you've worked it out.
You're a manufacturing plant anyway.
You're putting all your pieces together,
replicating it all across the world.
- Job well done.
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